Salem Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: Mississippian | |
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Fossil red algae on Salem Limestone from Kentucky
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Type | Formation |
Unit of | Sanders Group, Meramec Group |
Underlies | St. Louis Limestone |
Overlies | Harrodsburg Limestone[1] Warsaw Formation[2] |
Lithology | |
Primary | Limestone |
Location | |
Region | Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Missouri |
Country | United States |
Type section | |
Named for | Salem, Washington County, Indiana[2] |
The Salem Formation is a geologic formationinIllinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Missouri. It preserves fossils dating back to the Mississippian subperiod. This formation is quarried and used as a building material, known as "Indiana limestone", also called Bedford limestone.
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